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title: "Overview"
date: "2025-10-03T07:54:47+00:00"
summary: "Boost website speed and security with Acquia Edge Standard's CDN and WAF. Manage settings, gain insights, and protect against threats."
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Acquia Edge Standard is a streamlined Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Web Application Firewall (WAF) solution designed to enhance the performance and security of your websites. To route site traffic through a secure network, the system caches content to reduce load times, protects against common web threats, and provides detailed insights into your traffic patterns.

### Key features

1.  **Content Delivery Network (CDN)**: Improves site speed when the system caches content closer to users to reduce latency and bandwidth consumption.
2.  **Web Application Firewall (WAF)**: Provides robust security against Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top 10 vulnerabilities, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, and malicious bot traffic.
3.  **Acquia managed ruleset**: Includes pre-configured rules maintained by Acquia for Drupal core hardening and technology shielding, such as blocking WordPress scans and mitigating known bots.
4.  **Rate limiting**: Safeguards domains by restricting request volumes from individual clients. The system places abusive IP addresses in a _10-minute penalty box,_ where it blocks further requests.
5.  **IP access control**: Enables you to explicitly allow or block traffic based on specific client IP addresses or CIDR ranges.
6.  **Security metrics dashboard**: Offers real-time visibility into mitigated threats, saved bandwidth, and rule effectiveness through a centralized audit table.
7.  **Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)**: Enables permission management through defined Edge Administrator, Edge Manager, and Edge Viewer roles.

### Prerequisites

Before you configure Edge Standard, ensure you meet the following requirements:

1.  **Active subscription**: You must have an active Acquia Cloud platform subscription with an Edge Standard entitlement.
2.  **Acquia purge module**: Install the latest version of the Acquia Purge module on your Drupal application to ensure cache invalidation functions correctly.
3.  **DNS access**: You must have administrative access to your external DNS provider, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) Route 53 or GoDaddy, to perform ownership validation and traffic repointing.
4.  **Acquia ID**: Administrative users must be able to log in to the Edge console at [https://edge.acquia.com](https://edge.acquia.com).

### Compatibility and constraints

#### Supported use cases

*   Acquia-hosted custom domains: Edge Standard is designed for custom domains such as www.example.com, where you can repoint DNS.

#### Current constraints and incompatibilities

Edge Standard does not currently support the following products or scenarios:

*   Acquia Cloud Site Factory (ACSF)
*   Acquia Cloud Professional (ACP)
*   Node.js applications
*   Customers requiring FedRAMP-compliant WAF or CDN
*   Multi-Experience Operations (MEO) or multi-region failover setups

#### Additional limitations

*   **SSL certificates**: Acquia does not support _bring your own_ (BYO) Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates for this offering. Certificates generate automatically after DNS validation.
*   **Root domains**: Support for root (bare) domains is available only if your DNS registrar provides CNAME flattening (ALIAS or ANAME records).
*   **Stacked CDNs**: Stacking Edge Standard with other reverse-proxy CDNs (such as Platform CDN) is not supported.